Yeah, he should look at the bios first. However, my intention was to get the jumpers set first, see if it works as is, then if not, yes, do check the bios. I avoided the secondary controller option, because most 486 machines I've seen had to ide ports, that were in fact the one and only controller. So, I didn't want to totally confuse him, if this happened to be the case with his motherboard. Greg On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > You need to set a jumper on the hard drive as master (I've also seen some older drives where there was a master with slave option, use that if your drive has such a setting). You also need to set your cd-rom drive's jumper to slave. Hth. > > Greg > ok, just to add to this, you'll need to check your cmos/bios setings to > ensure that your drives are being detected correctly. > it's not just a matter of setting the jumpers and hoping for the best. > this is where alot of people go wrong. > if possible put the cdrom on a seperate ide controler and I personally > would set it as secondary master. I will stand to be corrected on this but > if that doesn't work, slave it to your hard drive as either a primary > slave on the primary ide controler or as a secondary slave on the > secondary ide controler. > please feel free to correct me anyone as I don't always get things right. > -- > qShaun Oliver > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > -- Roger Price > > Email: shauno at goanna.net.au > Icq: 76958435 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
